Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Gun use surges in Europe, where guns are rare. What could be the cause of this?
The article is a shambles. It throws women afraid of being raped into the same bag as South American terrorists and Eastern European refugees – they all want guns and guns hurt people so guns are bad.
The author’s inability to distinguish between citizens who desire guns for lawful self-defense in response to government unwillingness to crack down on refugee violence, versus the Muslims shooting up markets or the narcotics gangs killing judges and policemen, makes an analysis impossible and the proposed solutions worthless.
Is clear thinking really so hard to come by, these days?
On today’s left?
Rhetorical question, right?
An interesting fact is that a number of Euro countries actually have quite a few weapons being held by individuals. Mostly long guns, traditional hunting arms, but weapons nonetheless. Most people know of Switzerland – isn’t it something about taking your weapon with you after national guard training or something? But Sweden, Norway, France, even Germany have nontrivial numbers of weapons – nothing like the US (not even the Swiss has as many per person), but enough.